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To:	arnold@infographix.com (Arnold D. Robbins)
cc:	sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: 9term and $DISPLAY 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Aug 1996 19:45:34 EDT."
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Date:	Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:06:43 -0400
From:	Scott Schwartz <schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu>
Message-Id: <96Aug20.000655edt.12690@galapagos.cse.psu.edu>

arnold@infographix.com (Arnold D. Robbins) writes:
| Should 9term be putting the current display (from -display) into
| the environment?  I find it frustrating to start up a 9term from a remote
| machine to my local one (I have scripts and stuff from 9menu to do it)
| and have to set my DISPLAY each time so I can run sam or other things.
| 
| Any reason not to?  It seems that xterm does, for whatever that's worth.

It definately should.  I've been running with this (in display.c)
for a long time now:

	setenv("DISPLAY", XDisplayString(_dpy), 1);

I thought I sent out patches for that, but maybe I forgot.